Washline-hanger.



H. GILLAR.

'WASHLINE HANGER. I APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1908.

907,777. Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

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HENRY GILLAR, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

WASHLINE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

Application filed March 12, 1908. Serial No. 420,635.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GILLAR, a sub ject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Hoboken, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in washline-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to washline hangers and has for its object to provide a construction, whereby the feeding of the line, as the washings are being hung on or attached to it, can be effected from the inside of the room without the necessity of ones leaning out of the window, thus preventing accidents.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing. in which similar reference letters denote corresponding parts and in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the washline hanger partly in vertical section on line l1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2 a cross section on line 22 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a partial front view thereof.

The new washline hanger consists of a longitudinal guide, as a bar or rail a formed at its ends with curved brackets b, b to be detachably secured to one of the longitudinal sides of the window case a. To the forwardly projecting ends (1 of the said brackets frames e, e are pivoted. These frames carry pulleys f, f arranged vertically above one another the peripheries of which extend through the center of rotation of the frames e, e or, in other words, are in line with the pivots thereof. Over the pulleys the washline g is guided which, owing to the above named qualification of the pulleys, no matter into which direction the latter are turned, will always remain in the guide grooves of said pulleys and permit of the line being easily shifted.

The bar or rail a is at opposite sides provided with longitudinal guide grooves h, h and movably mounted thereon is a slide consisting of a frame y' provided with rollers 7c, which are adapted to engage the grooves h, h and to roll therein. Pivoted to the frame 1' is a bifurcated lever Z formed with a handle Z. This lever embraces with its forks the line 9 and is provided at the point where the forks meet with lugs m, m which normally, i. (1., when the lever extends in horizontal position, are out of contact with the line, but

upon the turning of the arm upwards or downwards, either one of the lugs will tightly press the line against the front surface of the frame so that by shifting the slide along the bar the same will cause the feeding of the line in the direction of movement of the slide.

It is thus seen that there is no necessity for leaning out of the window in order to feed the line, as this can be accomblished by turning and holding the lever out of its horizontal position and shifting the slide either upwards or downwards as the case may be.

The swivel frames carrying the line pulleys permit horizontal movement of the latter according to the direction in which the line is extended.

What I claim is:

1. The herein described washline hanger, comprising a longitudinal guide, pulleys carried by the latter and arranged vertically above one another, a line guided around said pulleys, a slide movable on said guide, means for frictionally connecting the line with said slide to allow of the line being fed by the movement of the slide.

2. The herein described washline hanger, comprising a longitudinal guide bar to be stationarily attached to the window case, pulleys carried at the opposite end of said bar and arranged vertically above one another, a line guided around said pulleys, a slide movably mounted on said bar, a manually operated bifurcated lever pivoted to said slide and embracing the line, and means on said bifurcated lever for frictionally connecting the line with said slide upon turning the arm out of its horizontal position.

3. The herein described washline hanger, comprising a longitudinal guide, swivel frames carried by the latter, pulleys carried by said swivel frames and having their periphery extended through the center of rotation of said swivel frames, a line guided around said pulleys, a slide movably mounted on said guide, and means for frictionally connecting the line with said slide to allow of the line being fed by the movement of the slide. Signed at New York this 1 1th day of March,

HENRY GILLAR.

- Witnesses:

JOHN T. CARMoDY, MAX D. ORDMANN. 

